Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on June 26, 2016

The Martian machines and their force fields. H.G. Wells purists may quibble with George Pal's 1953 production of The War of the Worlds. True enough, little remains of the novel's original plot. However, Pal and director Byron Haskin successfully balance the large-scale scope of the Earth's desperat   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on June 26, 2016

The Martian machines and their force fields. H.G. Wells purists may quibble with George Pal's 1953 production of The War of the Worlds. True enough, little remains of the novel's original plot. However, Pal and director Byron Haskin successfully balance the large-scale scope of the Earth's desperat   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 8, 2014

Share This! “If they’re mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They’ll be stopped, somehow.”——Gene Barry The original version of The War of the Worlds was a product of the horror/science fiction films of the 1950s following World War II and expressing latent fears of the hydrogen bomb and Russi   read more